The Gate of Horn — Asekoff '61 Umbrellas Russwurm's life is one of

Russwurm's life is one of "firsts": first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College [class of 1826]

forever linking the city and state with the centrality of photography

Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb

fosters imagination

the reader

The Gate of Horn — Asekoff '61 Umbrellas Russwurm's life is one ofBy L. S. Asekoff, Class of 1961 Recepient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Apart from two volumes published in the 1990s, the work of L. S. Asekoff has been winning admirers only among those lucky enough to encounter it in poetry journals and magazines over the last three decades. Now comes a new collection from this startlingly original poet. Astonishing in its variety of forms and subject matter, The Gate of Horn includes a series of monologues in